METU

    The reasons that I choose METU FLE department is actually that I had choosen foreign language section because I was good at English lessons at high school and love English a lot and that I knew that METU is successful in foreign language education compared to any other universities are. I came to Metu just with knowing this but then when I get the campus I saw that METU is not only gives high quality education to the students but also supplies a lot of facilities in the field of entertainment ,sport ,art et cetera... Also it has a huge and gorgeous campus which includes restaurants ,spor complexes, shopping centers and also natural beauty (forests,Lake Eymir). Without going out of campus it is possible to live here because we can find almost anything we need and want. I am really happy to be here and really love METU. I say to myself "Thanks God I am here and I have a chance to spend 5 years in this great place." doubtless.
    My expectations from my department just like any other student's not to be pushed a lot not to be given lots of tasks and not to have absenteeism problem but I know these are just a dream. Beyond these I really want to have a good education about my field I want to improve my English and use it effectively in accordance with my purposes. And I think in education that both of learner's and teacher's being comfortable and happy during lessons is the most important rule otherwise it's impossible to have a feedback. But I don't think that we will have a problem because the teachers whom I met so far were all professional and cheerful.
   Challenges that I think I need to meet my department are especially reading lessons and speaking. I am not good at reading because I have concentration problem and I am a person who can't study even for an hour although I know being successful at reading lessons is hard without making practice. So I will try to do more practice to overcome this issue. And because we are not educated listenig and speaking oriented in our previous schools it is a kind of hard for me to speak English fluently. Thanks to prep school I coped with this problem even if just a tad. I hope I will be successful in overcoming these challenges.
   In 5 years' time, 4 of them I see myself here in university :) In these 4 years and for later I want to learn other languages as far as I can and I want to be a translator after I graduate.
   So these are what means to me to be a university student at METU.
                                                             
                                                                                                                         Ayşe Begüm Çimen